PROJECT DESCRIPTION

This project connects research on propaganda and deception in fascist Germany and Japan to a creative food and design experience. A three-course meal represents the rise and fall of these regimes: the appetizer reflects false justifications for war through misleading presentation, the main course symbolizes the overwhelming spread of propaganda with bold, heavy flavors, and the dessert represents collapse using unstable textures or bitter contrasts. Ingredients, colors, plating, and even how the food is eaten all carry symbolic meaning, while the ceramic tableware reinforces these ideas through shape, weight, and surface design, turning history into a sensory, visual story about power, manipulation, and consequences.

APPETIZER

ENTREE

DESSERT

The gyoza style sauerkraut dumplings are a fusion food meant to demonstrate how the two largest fascist empires during WWII started off very differently. The dish combines two dishes hinting at the strong ties between the counties later in the war but pulls together some very different contrasting flavors to highlight there differences.

Our entree meal is a miso soup served in a German bretzle style bread bowl representing the use and spread of propaganda during the war. On your plate multiple bowls rest as you spread propaganda in the form of soup around your bread bowl based townships. The bretzel bread bowl is of German origin.

Poor communication, resource shortages. and failure to adapt all led to Germany and Japan's defeat in WWII. Germany's poor coordination-especially between Hitler and his generals-caused disasters like the split during Operation Barbarossa (1941), while both nations often declared war without consulting each other.

؜Recipes

؜FOOD RITUAL

Shojin ryori, translated as "food of devotion"

CRAFT TRADITION

Agano yaki

؜A. Prepare food with organic and seasonal ingredients.

B. Cook with more water than fat.

C. When eating, put away phone, book, or TV, and focus on and enjoy the food.

D. Chew slowly and be present when eating.

Agano ware (called Agano yaki) is a form of pottery produced around the town of Fukuchi in Fukuoka prefecture. Agano ware is elegant and lightweight, stemming from its development as a tea bowl for use in tea ceremonies.

CULTURAL RESEARCH

Japan

؜FOOD RITUAL

Kaffee und Kuchen

CRAFT TRADITION

Meissen porcelain

؜Germany is famous for its cakes and pastries, such as Schwarzwälder Kirschttorte (Black Forest Cake) and Bienenstich (Bee Sting Cake). But how and when these delights are consumed is also special.

؜Meissen porcelain or Meissen china was the first European hard-paste porcelain. Early experiments were done in 1708 by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.

CULTURAL RESEARCH

Germany

؜Japan

Germany

؜The appetizer's plate separates the dumplings and the sauces

APPETIZER

PROTOTYPE 1

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؜The appetizer's plate separates the dumplings and the sauces

APPETIZER

PROTOTYPE 1

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؜Serving the soup is a bowl with a Japanese soup ladle

ENTREE

PROTOTYPE 1

؜There is a plate that serves the bread and holds the bowl

ENTREE

PROTOTYPE 2

؜The Plates are shaped like islands to symbolize the Japanese island hopping campaign. there is a oil drum inspired stein for coffee

DESSERT

PROTOTYPE 1

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